There is a way to use mbrola voices with espeak. It is more human-sounding, but getting used to espeak standard voice does not take long. Regards, Willem On Sun, 31 May 2009, James Homuth wrote: > Somewhat related, what's the likelyhood of Espeak voices getting > improvements to be more... I'm not sure what the word for it is, other than > human-sounding? That's been one of my main sticking points for why I'm still > with Windows on my primary machine; that, plus I've not until now had time > to test the accessibility of my particular preferred distribution. I did > hear a demonstration a while back of a version of Espeak, and while I could > definitely get used to it, I think I'd like it a whole lot better if it > didn't sound quite as robotic. I'm not saying it should equal eloquence by > any means, but the demo I heard kind of reminded me of the old Echo synths > used on the early Apple computers. Good, but could be better, IMHO. Anyway, > this was more a rambling/curiosity thing and by no means an attempt at > criticism as I've not actually gotten it running locally yet, so for all I > know my version of Espeak could already be improved over the demo I heard. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Hermann > Sent: May 31, 2009 3:59 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: speakup using different synths with software speech? > > am So 31. Mai 2009 um 21:31:02 schrieb William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com>: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Tyler, > > > > I recommend getting used to espeak. The version of eloquence on linux > > is old, buggy, and they are not planning to upgrade it. > > > He can look here: > http://voxin.oralux.net/index.php#main > I've bought a rather new version there a few months ago. > Works pretty well, but to use it with Speakup Speech-Dispatcher is required. > Note: Maybe the Emacspeak-server works as well; I remember having seen > something in the install script. > Hermann > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.
